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Juan pondered the idea of setting up a Rent an Optimist business where you could always find someone happy and cheerful to talk away the funk built up by long days, weeks, months or years living around the same old sadsacks.
October 9, 2008 at 9:17 AM ::
Oh, baby. Sign me up, puhleeze. In fact, do you need any seed money? It’s worth giving up Stuft and Mission City for a few months.
bakerina on 10/09/08 at 09:47 AM ::
Some people think the “Rent an Optimist” idea is not half bad. Others think it’s not half good. As for me, I’m a realist.
Hello, ‘mouse.
scott on 10/09/08 at 09:55 AM ::
Ehh… this isn’t… good(?) yet, but you inspired it ‘mouse so here it is.
In the bottom left hand corner
of the Sunday classifieds,
beside “Lawnmower - Only Used Twice!”
and just below “Kittens to a good home”
There was a somewhat different proposal.
The ad read,
simply,
“Optimist for Rent,”
then continued as they all do,
providing information that the wary buyer never checks,
things like “Was kept out in the rain,”
and “Weren’t let outside after the squirrels had rabies.”
It read in small, smudged print
“Will clean out the basement of your mind,
and get rid of the built up funk of one too many lonely days,”
but I never did read that sort of thing.
My eyes just slid down to the next item
“Explosives”
("Only used once")
and I ended up buying that one
after all,
they were somewhat cheaper than optimism.
OhNo789 on 10/10/08 at 08:00 PM ::
Bravo, OhNo789, bravo.
boot on 10/10/08 at 08:14 PM ::
I only wish that it sounded better…
OhNo789 on 10/10/08 at 08:19 PM ::
Sometimes, you go with what you’ve got and turns out pretty damn good anyway.
Like this, for example.
boot on 10/10/08 at 08:27 PM ::
Why thank you.
OhNo789 on 10/10/08 at 08:46 PM ::